Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] git-prompt: include sparsity state as well

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> ...
> The reason for showing the "|SPARSE" substring before other states is to
> ...
> The fact that sparsity isn't just cached metadata or additional
> information is what leads us to show it more similarly to the
> in-progress states, but the fact that sparsity is not transient like the
> in-progress states might cause some users to want an abbreviated
> notification of sparsity state or perhaps even be able to turn it off.
> Allow GIT_PS1_COMPRESSSPARSESTATE to be set to request that it be
> shortened to a single character ('?'), and GIT_PS1_OMITSPARSESTATE to be
> set to request that sparsity state be omitted from the prompt entirely.

Nicely explained.  It somewhat feels a bit overkill to have two
(i.e. compress vs omit) knobs---the other "semi-permanent" state
that may be of interest but could become too noisy only have one
knob that toggles between showing a short-and-non-intrusive sign
and not showing anything at all with GIT_PS1_SHOWSTASHSTATE, and
that smells like a better balance to me, but I dunno.

Thanks.  Will queue.